Manage data cuts with groups and attributes

A group type is an umbrella category or folder that's used to store individual groups (e.g. departments, locations, divisions, teams, Employee Resource Groups/ERGs).

Use these resources to create and populate groups and group types:

Help Center article 💡: Create a group and/or group type
Help Center article 💡: Add people to a group

Once you create and populate group types, you can perform a sync from 15Five to Engage and they will appear as Group Types in the Custom Groups tab.

Upon syncing data from 15Five to Engage, Group Types will be automatically created for Managers and Hierarchies. No additional steps are needed on your part.

• Manager groups will be created for each active Manager in 15Five and the direct reports for that manager will be added as members of that group.
• Hierarchy groups will be created for each active Manager in 15Five that has direct and indirect (downstream) reports, and the direct and indirect reports for that manager will be added as members in that group.

Default attributes are basic employee information— things like first name, hire date, and location. Once you populate these attributes for employees, you can perform a sync from 15Five to Engage and Group Types will be created and populated based on attribute assignment.

The following default attributes are available in 15Five:

• Email
• Employee ID
• First name
• Last name
• Start date
• Hire date
• Termination date
• Job title
• Job description
• Location
• Strengths
• Timezone

Use these resources to populate default attributes for employees:

• Help Center article 💡: Add new people (contains steps on adding new employees to 15Five either one-off, in bulk, or using an integration)
• Help Center article 💡: Bulk import or update people (contains steps on how to add new employees or make changes to employee data using a bulk import CSV)
• Help Center article 💡: Update a person's account settings (contains steps on editing an employee's data one-off)

Demographic Attributes in 15Five allow HR admins to report on key employee trends through the lens of their workforce’s demographics. Breakdowns by demographics and key defining characteristics of an employee are critical to helping people leaders uncover and address problems within their company before they become too big to solve.

Once you enable and populate demographic attributes, you can perform a sync from 15Five to Engage and Group Types will be created based on attribute assignment.

The following Demographic Attributes can be synced from 15Five to Engage:

• Birth date 
• Ethnicity
• Gender
• Race